Ah, Look at All the Lonely People
Here I am, alone on Christmas Eve, thinking about my favorite Beatles song. The first Beatles song I ever heard was Eleanor Rigby. I was in 8th grade English in 2007, thirteen years old, sitting in Mr. Robillard’s classroom when he played it for us as part of a lecture. We talked about the violins,…
Keep readingPerfection Is the Enemy of Good Enough
One of the best lessons I ever learned came from my old boss. I was obsessing over a project, re-reading every line, fixing tiny things no one else would ever notice. He looked at me and said, “Stephanie, perfection is the enemy of good enough.” I laughed at first, but he was right.
Keep readingLetting the Old Version of You Die
There’s a line from the movie Rocketman that stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it. A musician named Wilson looks at a young, unsure Elton John and says,
“You’ve got to kill the person you were born to be in order to become the person you want to be.”
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